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Genetic background of apparently idiopathic sporadic cerebellar ataxia.
Human genetics - 1 Aug 2000
Schöls L, Szymanski S, Peters S, Przuntek H, Epplen J T, Hardt C, Riess O
Abstract excerpt
Disease-causing mutations have been identified in various entities of autosomal dominant ataxia and in Friedreich's ataxia. However, no molecular pathogenic factor is known to cause idiopathic cerebellar ataxias. We investigated the CAG/CTG trinucleotide repeats causing spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 12, and the GAA repeat of the frataxin gene in 124 patients apparently suffering from...
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